Bobby Lee is back, with Ballet (and new products!)

[ChiBitCTy]

I know I am going against the grain here, but personally I do not want to see any more virgin BTC loaded products. BTCC Mint bottled lightning with their amazing products, and I think creating new series in that vein would take away from it. Instead, there are so many other form factors or innovations that Ballet could pursue. I love how Ballet is bringing collectibles to the masses, and I’d like to see that progress. Just my two Satoshis!

Majorly going against the grain lol.  BTCC coins and chips are certainly a special kind of collectible, but this is why it would be great to have Ballet making coins and chips again.  No one else is making anything with virgin bitcoin and to have a larger company making funded items, that adds a good deal of trustworthiness, not to mention BTCC collectibles are already deemed one of the most trustworthy out there.  I certainly hope he doesn't take your advice ! 

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[bobbyclee]

https://wiki.coin.community/BTCC_Mint_-_Bitcoin_Block,_12.5_Bitcoin











https://wiki.coin.community/BTCC_Mint_-_Bitcoin_Block,_12.5_Bitcoin

[rxalts]

Is this a hint for a collectible based on a major event in less than two months? 

[cygan]

the Bitcoin block/s looks very impresive and awesome 
must have for every collector 

[K-Paxian]

oh my god, this is so beautiful

[SatsLife]

Will the new ones for 2020 halving be funded?

[iBitcoinHongKong8]

https://wiki.coin.community/BTCC_Mint_-_Bitcoin_Block,_12.5_Bitcoin

YES! Please tell me it will be something along these lines! Virgin BTC mixed into a Ballet item of sorts. Huge fan of Ballet BTW. I used Ballet to learn how to peel and then split forks and it was literally magical. It handled everything within seconds. I peeled a pre-forked Satori chip just to learn and understand the process of peeling/splitting and understanding the process since I had never peeled anything before so I tested it and it went flawlessly! So I'm a huge Ballet fan here for a multitude of reasons mostly allowing for more mass adoption as that's what BTC needs most right now and making it easy to peel if one ever needed to break glass incase of emergency, etc.... I'd love to see some aspect of the 2 combined but definitely with virgin BTC funded to the project/item. Just my 6.25 bits . Hope that's the case. Either way all the best and good luck with whatever it is you're planning!


iBHK8

[anonymousminer]

https://wiki.coin.community/BTCC_Mint_-_Bitcoin_Block,_12.5_Bitcoin

Very interested Bobby.  Looking forward to a chat soon.

[bitebits]

Nice teaser Bobby, surely hope it is going to be a trilogy!

[bobbyclee]

Now that you've seen the teaser.... we plan to release more details & sample images within about ~24 hours.  (Once I announce it, regardless of what timezone you're in, it will NOT be an April Fool's Joke. Just giving plenty of warning and notice now.)

Yes, these Blocks will contain virgin BTC straight from the coinbase reward (zero hops), and includes all transaction fees in the block. This means that besides this being a truly limited series, each and every block will be unique, and have it's own block height, and unique block reward BTC amount. The blocks will be funded directly by our mining pool partner, to be announced later. (If there are additional mining pools who want to join us and cooperate, please send me private message or email.)

However, in terms of sales, you pay for the Block and the BTC separately. Once you pay, we will send you the empty block (in late April), and then once you confirm receiving it, the mining pool will mine the virgin BTC to your block, as a separate transaction. You WILL need to pre-pay a deposit, and extra BTC will be refunded to you after the mining is done.

We will first launch the pre-halving Blocks, with 12.5+ BTC.  The price will be 1.0 BTC for the block, plus extra for shipping.
We will start taking orders very soon, in the next few days. This series will be strictly limited, definitely no more than 100, and probably much less.
Every Block created will be made to order. This means that you have to order to buy one. If you don't order, there won't be any free inventory for sale afterwards.

Later in May, after the halving, we will release the post-halving Blocks, with 6.25+ BTC. The price for that is still TBD, but less than 1.0 BTC.

So.... let's see if any of you are interested in this product!

For every 1 person that replies to this message within the next 30 minutes, I'll release 1 teaser photo of the new product (up to 3 total images, as that's all I have now.)

cheers!

[SatsLife]

Congrats on the continuation with this. Posting for teaser pics.

[rxalts]

Tease please 

[bobbyclee]

Congrats on the continuation with this. Posting for teaser pics.

Thanks!

That's the design image for new 2020 three-star edition of the Bitcoin Block from Ballet...

(the post-halving blocks will be four-star edition.)

[bobbyclee]

Tease please  

Here's teaser #2...

a photo render of the actual block.

the size will be 8.0 x 8.0 cm square block, that is 1.0 cm in thickness, made of pure Titanium.
(In US dimensions, that's about a 3.15 inch by 3.15 inch square block, at 0.4 inch thickness.)

(This is all the exact same size / dimensions / design as the Bitcoin Block from my BTCC Mint days in 2016...)

[ClayCastCrypto]

Yessss!

And a Litecoin Block (?) 

[cygan]

more teaser pics needed 

[bobbyclee]

Yessss!

And a Litecoin Block (?)  

Sorry, no Litecoin Block yet... unless:
1) there's enough demand, maybe via Kickstarter?
2) there's a mining pool to help us mine virgin LTC...

In the meantime...



That's the full photo render of the true size and shape of the 2020 Bitcoin Block by Ballet.

Enjoy!

thanks,
Bobby

[bobbyclee]

https://wiki.coin.community/BTCC_Mint_-_Bitcoin_Block,_12.5_Bitcoin

YES! Please tell me it will be something along these lines! Virgin BTC mixed into a Ballet item of sorts. Huge fan of Ballet BTW. I used Ballet to learn how to peel and then split forks and it was literally magical. It handled everything within seconds. I peeled a pre-forked Satori chip just to learn and understand the process of peeling/splitting and understanding the process since I had never peeled anything before so I tested it and it went flawlessly! So I'm a huge Ballet fan here for a multitude of reasons mostly allowing for more mass adoption as that's what BTC needs most right now and making it easy to peel if one ever needed to break glass incase of emergency, etc.... I'd love to see some aspect of the 2 combined but definitely with virgin BTC funded to the project/item. Just my 6.25 bits . Hope that's the case. Either way all the best and good luck with whatever it is you're planning!


iBHK8

BTW, great to hear your positive stories about Ballet wallet and the mobile app.  We indeed did put in a lot of thought and refinements into the app, to fully support this community.

In specific, our mobile app has great support for ALL kinds of paper wallets and physical bitcoins (and supports physical litecoins also).
Please give it a try.  (you will need a physical Ballet REAL wallet to use the app to import from paper wallets, and it'll split out all the pre-fork coins for you.)

Please give us feedback; and let us know if any of you run into problems using Ballet Crypto app with your physical coins.

We support all physical coins as long as that crypto is supported by the regular REAL Bitcoin wallets.
The full list is here:
https://www.balletcrypto.com/en/coins

[SatsLife]

Have you considered making them out of precious metals instead of titanium? Bitcoin block definitely deserve to be made of silver or gold .

Personally, I think the price is a bit steep. I personally wouldn't pay a 1 BTC premium on a titanium collectible, regardless of its loaded value (especially since we're pretty close to the halving).

That's only an 8% premium on the 12.5 blocks. No it is not cheap, all the more rare they will be.

[Lesbian Cow]

Have you considered making them out of precious metals instead of titanium? Bitcoin block definitely deserve to be made of silver or gold .

Personally, I think the price is a bit steep. I personally wouldn't pay a 1 BTC premium on a titanium collectible, regardless of its loaded value (especially since we're pretty close to the halving).

Hi Bobby,

Congratulations on the cool new offering coming from Ballet.

I second the question in bold above.  Given the value of the btc a metal more appropriate than a few quid of Ti seems like it would be much more suited to the project.  

Just my thoughts, and again, cool project.